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Creating a World Without Poverty

Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

Contributors

By Muhammad Yunus

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Jan 6, 2009
Page Count
320 pages
Publisher
PublicAffairs
ISBN-13
9781586486679

Price

$17.99

Price

$22.99 CAD

Format

Format:

  1. Trade Paperback $17.99 $22.99 CAD
  2. ebook $11.99 $15.99 CAD

In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe. But traditional capitalism has been unable to solve problems like inequality and poverty. In Muhammad Yunus’ groundbreaking sequel to Banker to the Poor, he outlines the concept of social business — business where the creative vision of the entrepreneur is applied to today’s most serious problems: feeding the poor, housing the homeless, healing the sick, and protecting the planet. Creating a World Without Poverty reveals the next phase in a hopeful economic and social revolution that is already underway.

  • “In Creating a World Without Poverty, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus argues convincingly that social business is an achievable way of exploiting capitalism to help the poor. Yunus moves the debate beyond the tired argument that the rich should simply donate to those less privileged, and demonstrates that the free market can in fact be used to the advantage of the less well off…This book is a must-read for policymakers or philanthropists, and its conversational style and straightforward logic also make it appealing to the layperson.”
    Scotland on Sunday
  • “An inspiring volume, full of practical information for people who are motivated to try out his ideas.”
    BusinessWeek
  • “In this excellent work of popular economics, he tells the story of how he came to the idea and the impressive results it has generated.”
    Winnipeg Free Press
  • “The influential economist and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world. Includes stories of companies that are already doing social business.”
    Bookseller
  • “Infused with entrepreneurial spirit and the excitement of a worthy challenge, this book is the opposite of pessimistic recitals of intractable poverty’s horrors.”
    Publishers Weekly

Muhammad Yunus

About the Author

Muhammad Yunus, a native of Bangladesh, was educated at Dhaka University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at Vanderbilt University. In 1972 he became head of the economics department at Chittagong University. He is the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, a pioneer of microcredit, an economic movement that has helped lift millions of families around the world out of poverty. Yunus and Grameen Bank are winners of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

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